Philippines mud slide forces gold mines to close
Nearby are an estimated 1,000 mining tunnels at home Pantukan, Robredo alleged. Mine shafts honeycomb the hills and mountains dressed in Pantukan, making them unstable and causing frequent accidents. The area is a enticement used for the poor and the unemployed who complete not come up with a few training stylish mining but possibility to punch it rich stylish a population everywhere the poorest live on all but solitary dough a period. The miners dig used for gold with necessary tools, pickaxes and iron bars, and conduct the ore during sacks on their backs. Pantukan town spokesman Arnulfo Lantayan told The Associated Press to five additional bodies were recovered Friday, bringing to 27 the come to of long-established sufferers. Three of the silent were sisters, aged 6-14.